From: S.J. Van Sickle (sjvan@csd.uwm.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 24 2003 - 15:20:54 MDT
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
> Someone (spike?)
> should calculate what the LN2 costs would be to keep a body
> frozen in a dewar on an annual basis assuming everything were
> automated.
The current 4 person dewars boil about 15 liters/day of LN2...call it 4
liters/person/day. Larger dewars could easily get it to 1
liter/person/day. Industrial quantities of LN2 run about $.05/liter, so
you are looking at a nickel per day, or about $20/year.
Of course, even today, LN2 costs are a fraction of the total upkeep cost.
But the marginal cost for the million and first person could be extremely
small.
steve van sickle
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